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cloth, a looking-glafs, fome nails, medals, and beads. He received thefe things, orrather fuffered them to be put upon him, and laid by him, without lofing a bit of hisgravity, fpeaking one word, or turning his head either to the right or left; fitting thewhole time like a ftatue; in which fituation he left him, to return on board, and hefoon after retired. The captain had not been long on board before word was broughtthat a quantity of provifions had come from this chief. A boat was fent to bring xtfrom the fliore; and it confided of about twenty balkets of roafled bananoes, fourbread and yams, and a roafted pig of about twenty pounds weight. Mr. Edgecurnbeand his party were juft re-imbarking when thefe were brought to the water-fide, andthe bearers faid it was a prefent from the Areeke, that is, the king of the ifland, to theAreeke of the fhip. After this they were no longer to doubt the dignity of this fulledchief, whofe name was Kohagee-too-Fallangou.
The captain went on fliore, and made this great man a fuitable return, and imme-diately prepared for quitting the place. In heaving in the coafting cable, it partedin the middle of its length, being chafed by the rocks. By this accident they loft th eother half, together with the anchor, which lay in forty fathoms water, without anybuoy to it. The beft bower cable differed alfo by the rocks; by which a judgmen-may be formed of this anchorage. At ten o’clock they got under fail. The fuppl ieSthey got at this ifle were about one hundred and fifty pigs, twice that number of fowls?as many bananoes and cocoa-nuts as they could find room for, with a few yams; andhad their flay been longer, they, no doubt, might have got a great deal more.
Thefe iflands were firft difcovered by Captain Tafman in January 1642-3 ; and,. byhim called Amfterdam and Middleburg. But the former is called by the nativesTon-ga-ta-bu, the latter Ea-oo-wee. .,
The produce and cultivation of Middleburgh and Amfterdam are the fame; vV1 .this difference, that a part only of the former, whereas the whole of the latter,cultivated. The lanes or roads neceffary for travelling are laid out in fo judiciousmanner as to open a free and eafy communication from one part of the ifland tothe other. Here are no towns or villages, moft of the houfes are built in the p* anations, with no other order than what convenience requires; they are neatly conftrutled, but do not exceed thofe in the other ifles. The materials of which they abuilt are the fame; and fome little variation in the difpofition of the framing is all * ®difference in their conftruction. The floor is a little raffed, and covered with tm cftrong mats; the fame fort of matting ferves to inclofe them on the windward n ’the other being open. They have little areas before the moft of them, which agenerally planted round with trees, or fhrubs of ornament, whofe fragrancy perrum .the very air in which they breathe. Their houfehold furniture confifts of awooden platters, cocoa-nut-fhells, and fome wooden pillows fhaped like four-100ftools or forms. Their coiqmon clothing, with the addition of a mat, ferves thembedding. _ r
They faw no other domeftic animals atnongft them but hogs and fowls. The toare of the fame fort as at the other ifles in this fea ; but the latter are far fup 61 " 1 ’being as large as any we haye in Europe , and their flefh equally good, if not be .They faw no rats in thefe ifles, nor any other wild quadrupeds except fmall hza^ aThe land birds are pigeons, turtle-doves, parrots, paroquets, owls, bald couts wi ^blue- plumage, a variety of fmall birds, and large bats in abundance. The produc ^the fea they knew but little of: it is reafonable to fuppofe that the fame forts o ^are found here as at the other ifles. Their fffhing inftruments are the fame ", 1 a , ’hooks made of mother-of-pearl, gigs with two, three, or more prongs, and nets n ^